Digitalization of Vocational and Scientific Training (DiAWe)

The digital revolution has been exerting a significant influence on economic and societal change and is one of the key drivers of professional and academic training. For suppliers of publicly accessible training in this area, the changes have given rise two a twofold challenge. On the one hand, the demand for further education and training to cope with digitalization needs to be recognized and adequate offerings need to be established on the continuing education market; on the other, ongoing education and the corresponding market are themselves subject to transformation processes.

How well the continuing education market succeeds in supporting social and economic transformation during digitalization with its further training courses is dependent in no small part on whether the suppliers of continuing vocational and academic training in particular succeed in exploiting the opportunities offered by digitalization and overcoming the associated risks.

The research project will examine the regional, institutional and organizational factors and conditions of the digitalization of professional and academic training as well as their consequences for the providers of such training. The aim is to identify the effect mechanisms and to use this as a basis for the generation of management knowledge that is relevant for action.